Brief Bio: Dr. Danda B. Rawat is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Howard University, Washington, DC, USA. Dr. Rawat's research focuses on cybersecurity and wireless networking for emerging networked systems including cyber-physical systems (energy, transportation, water, UAV), smart cities, software defined systems and vehicular network security and privacy. His professional career comprises more than 10 years in academia, government, and industry. He has secured over $2 million in research funding from US National Science Foundation, US Department of Homeland Security, and private Foundations. Dr. Rawat is the recipient of NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2016, the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Summer Faculty Visiting Fellowship in 2017, Outstanding Research Faculty Award (Award for Excellence in Scholarly Activity) at GSU in 2015 and the Best Paper Award from BWCCA 2010. He has delivered over 10 Keynotes and invited speeches at international conferences and workshops. Dr. Rawat has published over 150 scientific/technical articles and 8 books. He has been serving as an Editor/Guest Editor for over 20 international journals. He has been in Organizing Committees for several IEEE flagship conferences such as IEEE INFOCOM 2015-2018, IEEE CNS 2017, IEEE CCNC 2016-2018, ICNC 2017/2018, IEEE AINA 2015/2016, and so on. He served as a technical program committee (TPC) member for several international conferences including IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE CCNC, IEEE GreenCom, IEEE AINA, IEEE ICC, IEEE WCNC and IEEE VTC conferences. He served as a Vice Chair of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Savannah Section from 2013 to 2017. He is the Founding Director of the Cyber-security and Wireless Networking Innovations (CWiNs) Research Lab. He received the Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. Dr. Rawat is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM, and a member of ASEE. Dr. Rawat is a Fellow of ​​the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

Recent News:

Dr. Rawat with Dr. Bloom received ~$1.2 million research funding to support the research on "Security Engineering for Resilient Networked Critical Infrastructure" from DHS (Aug. 2017).

Dr. Rawat received $16k supplement research funding to support the research on "CAREER: Leveraging Wireless Virtualization for Enhancing Network Capacity, Coverage, Energy Efficiency and Security" from NSF (Mar. 2017).

Dr. Rawat received $400k research funding to support the research on "CAREER: Leveraging Wireless Virtualization for Enhancing Network Capacity, Coverage, Energy Efficiency and Security" from NSF (Feb. 2016).

Dr. Rawat received ~$360k research funding to support the research on "Real-time Opportunistic Spectrum Access in Cloud based Cognitive Radio Networks" from NSF (July 2014, Aug. 2016).

Dr. Rawat has been serving in organizing committees for IEEE Flagship conferences, please check Professional Activities page for latest services.